In April/May 2019, I enjoyed a 4000 kilometre month long road trip to South Australia. The first destination had been the Eyre Peninsula. I visited Tumby Bay and then Port Lincoln for a live-aboard expedition to Hopkins Island and the Neptune Islands. After that I drove to Edithburgh on the Yorke Peninsula, meeting up with my friend Bob “Tango” Lewis, his son Glenn and his friends Andrew Green and Steve Wagstaffe. The diving conditions there were very poor so after four underwhelming low visibility dives, the five of us headed to Marion Bay at the southern tip of the Peninsula. The water there was clear and blue but frustratingly access to it was prohibited so we retreated back up the Peninsula, past the murky waters of Edithburgh to Wool Bay.
Although this small town is only 14 kilometres to the north of Edithburgh, the diving was very different. Like Marion Bay the water was clear and blue. Unlike Marion Bay access was easy and unlike Edithburgh, we found Leafy Sea Dragons. Heaps of them! Happy Days! And a very happy Malcolm!
A bonus for me was a tubefish, a species endemic to Australia and which Andrew kindly pointed out to me. As in Edithburgh, Steve took some great surface shots.